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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108769         
           Summary: Multiple Network Graphics (MNG) support
           Product: koffice
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: koffice kde org
        ReportedBy: horkana maths tcd ie


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

It would be great if Koffice and in particular Krita (and karbon) support the Mulitple Network Graphics format (MNG)
http://libmng.sourceforge.net
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

Don't think of MNG as a complex animated file format, think of it as PNG with extras.  
Currently there is no open standard for Layered Raster graphics.  Adobe PSD is the defacto standard.  
MNG would provide a better way to share images with other software without needing to use PSD and without being forced to flatten images to single layered PNG files or JPG.  

It would be generally useful if KDE could view these files (even as purely static images) and it could be useful to other koffice applications like KChart, Karbon, and Kivio (maybe even Kpresenter) so that vector graphics do not have to be completely falattened when being rasterised.  

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79131
The gimp can currently export MNG but does not yet support import but in the future it will hopefully support importing at least as much as it export.  

(Tivia note: Macromedia Fireworks uses a custom multipage version of PNG for their native file format.)
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